BILL NUMBER: SB 799	CHAPTERED  09/30/00

	CHAPTER   1037
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 27, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 28, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 27, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ortiz
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Cox)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 1999

   An act relating to the Grant Joint Union High School District.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 799, Ortiz.  Grant Joint Union High School District.
   (1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school
district to accept interdistrict transfers.  Existing law provides
for voluntary desegregation programs and authorizes any successor to
the Grant Joint Union High School District to be funded for such a
program.
   This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by requiring
any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School
District to accept, subject to schoolsite capacity, pupils in grades
7 to 12, inclusive, who apply to transfer to that school district
from any other school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School District and to provide home-to-school transportation for
pupils who transfer to the school district at no cost to the pupils.
  The bill would require any school district that succeeds the Grant
Joint Union High School District to use, for home-to-school
transportation, the funding made available pursuant to the voluntary
desegregation programs and would establish priorities for use of the
funding.
   This bill would also impose a state-mandated local program by
requiring any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union
High School to guarantee that any person formerly employed by the
Grant Joint Union High School District who becomes an employee of a
school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School
District would retain all seniority that the employee earned in the
Grant Joint Union High School District.
   (2) This bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances
applicable to the Grant Joint Union High School District, a general
statute within the meaning of certain provisions of the California
Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is
necessary.
  (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state.  Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund
to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide
and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed
$1,000,000.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  (a) Any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint
Union High School District shall do each of the following:
   (1) Accept, subject to schoolsite capacity, pupils in grades 7 to
12, inclusive, who apply to transfer to that school district from any
other school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High
School District.  Priority for transfer shall be given as follows,
with random lotteries to choose between pupils in like priority
ranks:
   (A) First priority shall be given to current pupils at the
schoolsite.
   (B) Second priority shall be given to residents of the schoolsite
attendance area.
   (C) Third priority shall be given to siblings of current pupils,
if transfer of the siblings would mitigate schoolsite segregation.
   (D) Fourth priority shall be given to pupils whose transfer would
mitigate schoolsite segregation.
   (E) Fifth priority shall be given to siblings of current pupils,
regardless of whether transfer of the siblings would mitigate
schoolsite segregation.
   (F) Sixth priority shall be given to pupils residing in the
district attendance area.
   (G) Seventh priority shall be given to other pupils not described
in subparagraphs (A) to (F), inclusive.
   (2) (A) Specify within the voluntary desegregation program
established pursuant to Section 42249 and subdivision (a) of Section
42249.6, subject to the availability of funding therefor, that first
priority for expenditure of funds provided for purposes of the
program shall be the provision of home-to-school transportation for
pupils who transfer to the school district pursuant to paragraph (1)
at no cost to the pupils.
   (B) If funding provided pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
42249.6 is insufficient to provide free home-to-school transportation
for all pupils who transfer to the school district, first priority
for free home-to-school transportation shall be given to pupils
eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches.  If funding is
insufficient to fully fund home-to-school transportation for the
pupils eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, funding
shall be prorated among the pupils eligible to receive free or
reduced-price lunches.
   (C) Any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High
School District shall use, for purposes of this paragraph, the
funding made available pursuant to Section 42249.6.
   (3) Guarantee that any person formerly employed by the Grant Joint
Union High School District who becomes an employee of a school
district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District
shall retain all seniority that the employee earned in the Grant
Joint Union High School District.
   (b) Any person who becomes an employee to any school district that
succeeds Grant Joint Union High School District due to unification
shall retain all seniority that the employee earned in the Grant
Joint Union High School District.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that, because of the
unique circumstances applicable to the Grant Joint Union High School
District, a statute of general applicability cannot be enacted within
the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution.
  SEC. 3.  Notwithstanding Section 17610 of the Government Code, if
the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains
costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and
school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7
(commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code.  If the statewide cost of the claim for
reimbursement does not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000),
reimbursement shall be made from the State Mandates Claims Fund.
